Thursday, April 17, 2008

As Anonymous so aptly noted in the comments of my last post, I've been gone for a while now. I've been in a bit of a rough patch, I'm hanging on by a seemingly invisible thread at work and it's just sapping my energy to do much else that requires higher brain function.

avoided turning on my home computer with a zeal matched only by my desire to eat my weight in Tastykakes

and, most notably:

managed to cover myself from bangs to belt in Italian dressing, thanks to an exploding squeeze bottle at the weekly Grand Rounds I run. In front of my boss. And others.

So, that's what I've been up to. That and reading.

12. The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson. Arizona book club.13. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctor and the Collision of Two Cultures - Anne Fadiman. Hospital book club.14. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen. Still an excellent book.15. Serenity Found: more unauthorized essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe - edited by Jane Espenson. Such a good TV show I'm forced to read about it.16. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield. Hospital book club.17. The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower VII - Stephen King.18. Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere - Hank Stuever. Highly recommended, especially for suburb dwellers like me.19. Back on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber.20. Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs. Arizona book club. Didn't really care for it. Neither did the book club.21. Death du jour - Kathy Reichs. But that didn't stop me from reading her second book. However the second book has stopped me from reading her third.

You might like Anne Fadiman's other two books, which are completely difference from The Spirit Catches You. They are Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader and At Large and at Small, and they are essays about books, book people, and reading. And they're wonderful.

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